J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
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How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.
